Improvement in cotton-presses



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No. 5,632. Patented June 13; 1848.

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W. B. NORTH,

GOTTONTRESSI No. 5,632, Patented June 13, 1848.

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WILLIAM B. NORTH, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

'IMPROVEMENT'IN COTTON-PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5,632, dated June 13,1848.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM 13. NORTH, of Jersey City, in the county ofHudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Mannerof Constructing a Press for the Pressing of Cotton; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full and exact deseription thereof.

The operating part of my press consists, mainly, of three or any otherconvenient number of iron or wood cylinders, thelength of each of whichis to be equal to that of the bale that they are intended toform. Thesecylinders are placed at equal distance apart and parallel to each other,so that lines joining their axes would form an equilateral triangle.When used for pressing, they, in the first instance, approach so nearlytogether as to bring their peripheries nearly into contact with eachother, they being made to approach each other by means of a weightedlever or 1evers,iwhile they are so suspended as to'be capable ofreceding from each other as the cotton which is to form the baleaccumulates between them. The cotton may be fed in between them directlyfrom the cotton-gin by means of an endless apron, the width of thelength of the rollers, one of which will serve to carry the inner end ofthe endless apron. The cotton passes into the space be-' tween the ironor wood rollers, and by their revolution is caused to roll upon itself,so as A to form a cylindrical bale, which goes on accumulating until thequantity is as great as is desired. At this time the cylinders will havebeen forced so far apart asto admit of the ready securing of the bale,for which purpose the canvas and ropes are passed in so as to surroundthe cotton, and are then made fast in the usual way.-

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an endelevation of my press;and Fig. 2, a vertical section thereof in the plane of the endelevation, Fig. l.

A A A are three grooved pulleys made fast pressing-rollers at each oftheir ends. These receive a rope or chain, B B, which may pass aroundthem in the manner represented in the drawings, and also around thetightening-pulley 0 and the auxiliary pulley D, which is situated on theof which is equal to that.

.fulcrum of the lever E that isheavily weighted at F, for the purpose ofcausing the pressingcylinders to approach each other with the requisitedegree of force. The manner in which the pulleys, rope, and weightoperate in producing this effect will be manifest from the inspection ofthe figure.

G G G are the pressing-rollers in the act of forming a bale, H, in thespace between them. I I is the endless feeding-apron by which the cottonto be baled is conveyed from the ginhouse or elsewhere to the press.

The dotted line J J shows the place of a flat disk of iron, of whichthere-is one at each end of the machine, which may be held in place andturn upon a bolt, K. These serve to form the ends of the bale flat. Thebale, when formed, is to he allowed to fall down between the two lowerpressingrollers, which, for this purpose, are made capable of beingremoved to a sufficient distance from each other. This I effect in thefollowing way:

L L areparts of the checks ofthe frame that serve as guides to theslides M M, that direct the sliding blocks M M, that receive thegudgeons of the pressing-rollers. These work on joint-pins at N, and areheld in place by the catches 0 0. \Vhen these catches are removed, thetwo lower pressing-rollers, G G, may be moved out lateral y and the baleallowed to fall through.

Having thus fully described the manner in which I construct my press forthe pressing of cotton so as to form in as new, cut, is

The so combining of three or any other convenient number of iron or woodrollers as that said rollers may be made to approach and recede fromeach other in a manner substantially the same with that hereinrepresented and described, the cotton to be pressed being carried intothe space between said rollers by means of an endless feeding-apron androlled upon itself in successive layers until the required quantity hasbeen accumulated, as herein set forth.

and desire to-secure by Letters Pat- VILLIAM B. NORTH.

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J. W. ScUDDER, JOHN H. Voonnnns.

bales, what I claim there-

